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Taking Mount Rushmore as a model, he should dig into the Urals for a several mile portrait of himself. A more valuable reminder would be railroad tracks across Siberia--which could spell out his name. Perhaps glass-walled skyscrapers with his portrait in stained-glass would work. Irrigation canals could trace his profile. Of course he could resort to the time tested method by building a pyramid...
...political problem, there was such satisfaction over the orders that few people paused to consider why the Reds had placed them. In the past the Iron Curtain nations were wheat exporters themselves. The surprisingly big Soviet order for Canadian wheat, which is to be delivered to Siberia, was supposedly placed in order to spare the Russians the trouble of rail-hauling grain from the Ukraine. But if that were the case, there should be surplus grain on hand in western Russia for satellite Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary...
Usually an air mass labeled with radioactivity shows up in Japan a short time after vibrations in the earth, sea or air have disclosed a Russian test in Siberia or a U.S. test in mid-Pacific. But on one occasion last year, a mass crossed Japan that had seemingly got lost. It arrived from the west, dropping radioactive rain on much of Japan and radioactive dust on the northern island of Hokkaido. A sample sent to Tokyo proved to be ordinary dust from the Gobi Desert, which often falls on Japan. It must have got its radioactivity from...
There was more politics than persistence in Shtykov's comeback. The man he replaced was Nikolai N. Shatalin, who had been in the top Moscow secretariat when Georgy Malenkov was Premier, but had been literally sent to Siberia when Khrushchev and Bulganin took over. Shtykov's return to favor is the latest in a series of significant changes in the Communist Party superstructure in the past month (others: in the Russian Republic, Lithuania, Uzbekistan). This sudden flurry of shake-ups apparently represents Khrushchev's increased grasp of the party machinery on the eve of this week...
...fact that the Japanese intended to invade Southeast Asia rather than hit the Russians in Siberia. Result: the Russians were able to unleash their Far East army when the Germans had virtually captured Moscow...